stapler scissors  the right size bandaid the thing for the thing form I need in my glove compartment to show the guy or buy the replacement...

  I just found  a poem I posted 9 years ago on another blog that I forgot about and it made me cry and be happy and grateful I wrote it down...

Happy Evey Halloweeney, Writers!   🎃 Dressing up? Why not?   Probably for the same reason I didn't dress up as requested by my tap danc...

  Aloha Haloha Writers! Feeling spontaneous?  Ready to play with words and shake em all up? Time to get back to your memoir? Your vitality? ...

 Today in Friday Writers one of my longtime (on and on I could go) students put into words what so much of this writing together is all abou...

Dear Writers Everywhere and Everyhere Eternal, Keep writing. Keep sharing your written gifts. We are collectively writing the human story an...

  Every time we write and share together I am encouraged to witness the immediate palpable empathy that kicks in when you read your writing;...

  Listening to the cat fountain and thinking about the waterfalls just outside of Grand Marais? Texting? Shopping for new kitchen towels? W...

 Today we wrote some favorite song lyrics and from there wrote memories, intuitive writing, etc, associated with those lyrics. I say "s...

 Who knew there was so much to write about dolphins? Who knew that some of us are dolphins? Do you remember Dolphin Shorts? We didn't wr...

 Today we wrote about Jell-O.

 We wrote about that today, especially losing control of our bodies, and how hard that can be when having  to go out in public out of contro...

 Happy Halloween! Why does that tickle the tummy? Must be all those eeeees. Something instantly wonderful about that. That's my instant ...

walking alone  (and walking alone for the first time)                                                                                       ...

 All to soon, we will look back and remember on these reunion-ing times by the narrative we'll use to describe them and leave it at that...

 Remodeling always takes longer than planned. Longer than they say. Longer than the promise our  confidence grants in the rosy beginning, al...

 *Spare-time accomplishments during the Pandemic One of the great prompts to come out of Wednesday Writers today was "Things I meant to...

want to write about this

  Hello Writers! It has been fun to remember some favorite writing prompts I did in high school, many of which keep on giving to this day. O...

Hello Writers! Boy, I could tell you stories about the garden, the greens,  the grass, the grape leaves, the baby bunnies beneath the arugul...